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| | Hello, :cry: Internet been terribly slow lately, I have run all anti virus/adwares/ online scans I could, and so far nothing has been found. I have just run hijackthis, does anyone see anything strange in the log? Maybe it has something to do with svchost processes? (all those issr.exe, lass.exe …  |
| | I use Tiny Personal Firewall. It is really easy to use, and it works fine for what i do. There are some programs that request outgoing/incoming connections. I'm not sure if i should let these progs communicate or not. If someone could let me know what these progs do, i … |
 | [color=black]I have a bunch of pesky processes using up my resources. I launched msconfig, went to the start up tab and found them. Now, how can I tell which to leave on(have to have) and which I can change to optional launch? I turned off a bunch and was unable … |
| | -My explorer keeps adding porn sites to my favorites and hijacking my homepage while keeping my explorer window open or closed. -I ran these spyware removal programs: X-Cleaner, clean out my IE options, ran CShrewder v1.47, ran Adware 6.0 and then SpybotS&D 1.2. -CShrewder cleans out CWS:Winshow and restores IE … |
| | Hello, I have windows XP. I have 4 profiles on the system if I set up the spybot and blaster apps on one profile does it cross over to all profiles or do I need to run the application under all profiles. Thanks for your help. Debbie |
| | hello everyone. the screen on my thinkpad is giving me these verticle and horizontal lines. they are multicolored and change depending on what is going on (whether it boots by itself or if it is connected to an external monitor). I have checked it with an external monitor and the …  |
| | Ok here's the prob. Whenever I try to start Internet Explorer, it gets an error message that says it has to close. I have a VERY fast computer with DSL so I don't know where this problem is coming from. I have ran Spybot and deleted the spyware from there … |
| | What's your experience with them? Do you like them or hate them? I had the first model they put out for the athlons years back. Didn't work too well. All three ram slots worked, but only one at a time. It wouldn't let me use more than 1 stick at …  |
| | Hi, I have windows 98se on a 1996 computer and when the desk top comes up after starting my computer, i get a small box on the desktop with Error-(Runtime error 21b at 00002DE4):sad: . So far I have seen no problem, but a problem has to be there somewhere. … |
| | When i click on Add/remove windows compenents on control panel i get the error: sysocmgr.exe error - application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005) ive tried replacing the sysocmgr.exe but no luck. any ideas?? |
| | Trying to load BroadBand AOL and keep getting the following "4129.670a Client Version has encountered a problem and will shut down" message. Anyone any idea why this happens. I have reformatted the HD and re-installed XP and it still happens. Before the reformat the computor was coming up with three … |
| | Can someone please have a look at this hjt log as my friend is gettin a lot of pop ups i have run adaware and cwshredder and a dew more and fixed a lot of problems thanking you in advanceLogfile of HijackThis v1.97.7 Scan saved at 14:43:15, on 20/03/04 Platform: … |
| | I am a fairly new PC owner. I had not installed virus protection and unsurprisingly, got infected. I had to totally reinstall all software, drivers etc. I also then installed Norton Anti Virus and Internet Protection software. I now have a problem when accessing the internet in that, seemingly at … |
| | What would be the equivalent of msconfig in windows 2k? Somebody told me once, but I can't remember. |
| | Hello, I installed a Serial ATA Card, the pc see the card, but WIndows 2000 explorer doesn't. How do I format the 2 Serial Ata hard drives?  |
| | Hows it goin :cool: just for the fun of it , im writing a batch file. this may sound daft but should you disconnect before typing ipconfig/release ipconfig/renew ? i would assume you would stay connected so you could p[erform such an operation . however after doing this, the IP … |
| | Hey what about a Internet Explorer/Mozilla thread why just IE? Just wondering I say we hold a poll does anybody else agree with me? |
| | Can someone please help me. Its a few days that I have noticed that explorer does not appear in my task program list. Before when the computer use to hang I use to do ctl alt del and click on explorer and the explorer would restart. Now when I do … |
| | Currently I have ME, but I want to upgrade my PC to XP, because basically ME is ish. It's a free PC though, so hey. Should I go to ebay and buy a copy? ...or should I download it from an FTP? Also what are some things I will need … |
| | So I ordered the DPG502 router and a 2nd comcast cable connection, installation was a snap, here are the results: [img]http://www.fronic.com/images/speeddu.gif[/img] After downloading for 1 minute. [img]http://www.fronic.com/images/farcry.gif[/img] Using something to split up sessions. Totally awesome, I can download headers from newsgroups while streaming live music and vides with no slowdowns. |
| | Background: OS is Fedora Core 1 Hardware is ATI TV Wonder VE Software is tvtime 0.9.12 The Goal: To allow all the users of the machine (myself and two other members of the household) to watch tv without having to a) be root, or b) execute a separate command after … |
| | when i enter "modprobe slamr" this is my modem driver, it tells me its tainted adn i should visit tux.org/something for more info and it said it was loaded with warnings :000! then when I enter "slmodemd" [root@localhost epro]# slmodemd SmartLink Soft Modem: version 2.9.6 Feb 29 2004 18:44:05 modem … |
| | I have Windows 98. When I start my computer I receive the message that states wupdater not responding. When I shutdown my computer I receive the message Backtrack Monitor Fatal Error 8205---cannot take snapshot  |
| | I'm building my first computer, so far, so good. I noticed that my power supply has a 12 volt cable (square with 4 wires) and that my motherboard has a 12 volt jack. Am I supposed to put it in there or not. by the way I'm not talking about … |
| | My friend installed XP over ME, and now it's killing his hard drive...he wanted to know if anybody can provide any insight as to how to remove Windows ME now. Thanks!!  |
| | when ever I go on certain web sites and when I close Iexplore I get a message saying - the instruction at "0x03e91F9c" referenced at "0x03e91F9c". the memory could not be "read".- What does it mean and can someone help me fix it. also if I  |
| | have built 2 before with no problems but this time monitor only stays on for a couple of minutes then goes black. Also trying to run maxblast (to format HD) and it gets to a point where you have to click ok and there is no curser |
| | ;) My comp is really weird. I have installed 1GB of ram, but whenever i restart my comp, when it loads into window XP, i slows down alot. it seems like its trying to load something but nothing comes out. We i click "my computer", it shows a flashlight searching …  |
| | I've had my computer for a while, but a few months ago, apparantly for no reason, whenever i go to windows update and click "scan now" it always stays at 0%. I can leave it running for hours but it will not move. It works perfectly on all other sites … |
| | I just built my first computer and everything is running perfectly. Except for one thing. The floppy drive wont work. I go to "My Computer" and it shows the 3 1/2 Floppy (A:) I put in a floppy and double click the icon and i get a message that says … |
| | I am, well, just an owner of a DELL Dimension 8250. A while back I was browsing my folders on this machine, and came across an application that made it possible for me to add a message when Dell was booting up. Well, now, I don't need that message anymore, … |
| | Hi, I'm running Fedora Core 1 and have 2 Hard Drives, each 40 GB. But when i was installing Fedora i setup the HD and now is showing hda1 mounted at /boot (4.0 MB size) and hdb1 mounted at / (40 GB size). It is showing the first HD as …  |
| | I have windows XP and was wondering if you can run that system without having the update.exe running. Debbie |
| | I'm using windows xpPro and since yesterday when ever i try to log off my computer or turn off the computer i get an error message stating that: "wupdater.exe has failed to respond" a blue timer runs through and then nothing happens. I either have to chose "end process now" … |
| | OK, this is seriously the most annoying thing ever. I click on Internet Explorer, and the little hour glass icon appears for a second and goes away.... and nothing happens. I go to my running processes and sure enough IEXPLORER.exe is running, but the screen is no where to be … |
| | Hi I am looking for a pro at this to explain or point to a site or link that will show me how to manually overclock my motherboard. I am using the quick clock setup, but want to learn the step by step method, to max the system (safely) with …  |
| | I am running an early version of linux server with no GUI and about a month ago my web page stops responding at least once a day. I can still ssh to the server and when I try to lynx [url]www.attyins.com[/url] I get no response on the box. The same … |
| | Hello all. It's my first post here and the main reason I joined after using this resource to help fix a couple of other different issues. Thanks for your help in the past. I'll try to be as complete as possible with the description of my problem. This machine is … |
| | I have Win Me and very often get a message that states there is an "error running scripts on this page-do you wish to continue?" I sometimes get this 3-4 times on the same page! What could be the problem? I also cannot run a disk defrag-It'll start, get to … |
 | I could use a little help getting my Active Desktop running again on XP Pro. Somehow, all of the Active Desktop settings on all the Windows menus have vanished... no idea how that happened. Can anyone shed some light on the best way to restore these? Thanks. |
| | AMD or Intel? I'm curious what everyone in this area is using and their reasoning. There will forever be the arguement of which is better, so everyone try to back your reasoning well. Let's see if we can solve this arguement once and for all. ;) :cheesy: BTW, I am … |
| | I know this sounds funny but I can't find what took all My HD space. I am running win xp with a 60 gig HD. I was trying to switch a mpg file to a svcd file using a program called XMEG. Everything was going fine until I got the … |
 | I have tried to reinstall the newest ATI drivers, and I reinstalled DirectX9 My games worked before but they dont know so it has to be some that wasnt installed right. Now I have tired games liek Halo, and Need for speed under ground, they worked before now they dont, … |
 | I didn't realize how to do this until just now so I thought I'd post about it. Suppose you have a directory on your box called "my_files" and you wish to compress it into a zip file. One level above the directory, use the following command [code]zip -r files.zip my_files/[/code] |
| | FOR THE PAST WEEK I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO SEND OR RECEIVE ANY DATA OVER THE MODEM WITH MY HOME DESKTOP COMPUTER. TODAY I INSTALLED AOL 7.0 AND WAS ABLE TO CONNECT AND SEND AND RECEIVE EMAIL WITH AOL, BUT NOT ABLE TO ACCESS ANY WEBSITES. AFTER SPENDING AN … |
| | Here is my situation, I have windows 98 with a windows xp home edition upgrade disk. I am reloading windows on my computer but trying to keep the current file system in tact. The problem is, when i put in the windows xp cd it asks me for the 98 … |
| | I have a machine running Windows 2000 and Red Hat 9 (dual boot) on separate HDs HD 1 is Windows 2000; HD 2 is Red Hat 9 Everything is working fine, except for i cannot see the drive with Windows from Red Hat. Some told me that you have to … |
| | Sony Vaio with XP Home on AMD4 1Ghz system freezes with svchost.exe using 100% CPU at various times including whenever the internet connection program opens the modem port. Suggestions? Additional, perhaps relevant history- The system initially began freezing after downloading MS critical updates. After several hard reboots, the system began … |
| | Have you ever noticed that in this forum under TechSupport...you have more people in the Macro$haft area than in the Linux area? Just thought it was weird. I mean, I know when I got firebird configured just right for slackware...I haven't had to do jack squat for it. And using … |
 | can anyonme tell me what windows 2000 source code is i've herd some mention about it from a friend. is it something you buy or download? |
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